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Notes for Stephen Comfort and Mary Ivins

1793 Aaron Ivins, son of Aaron and Ann Ivins, and Miriam Middleton were married on December 11, at Upper Springfield, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Mary Ivins, and many others. [1]

1797 Ann Ivins, daughter of Aaron and Ann Ivins, and John Comfort were married on October 18, at the Falls Monthly Quaker Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Witnessed by Mary Ivins, and others. [2]

1798 Mary Ivins, a minor above the age of 14, petitioned the Orphans Court at Bucks County that she is entitled to considerable estate real and personal of her father Aaron Ivins deceased who died intestate. Petition to appoint John Comfort as her guardian. Dated February 5. [3]

1800 Mary Ivins, daughter of Aaron and Ann Ivins, of Bucks County, and Stephen Comfort, son of John and Mary Comfort, of Bucks County, were married on March 19, at the Falls Meeting House. [4] [5] [6] [7]

1801 Isaac Ivins, son of Aaron (deceased) and Ann Ivins, late of Falls Twp, Bucks County, and Elizabeth Howard were married on November 12, at Upper Springfield Twp, Monmouth County. Witnessed by Mary and Stephen Comfort and many others. [8]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Records of Marriage Certificates from Upper Springfield Meeting, commencing 1783, 41, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 138, [AncestryImage].

[3] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Orphans Court Docket 2-345, FHL film 172918, image 351, file 1131, [FamilySearchImage].

[4] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1005, [HathiTrust].

[5] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 9. (Marriages to 1810, Volume 2) (1890), 239, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].

[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 138, [AncestryImage].

[7] Cecilia C. and Roland B. Botting, Comfort Families of America (1971), [FHLCatalog].

[8] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Records of Marriage Certificates from Upper Springfield Meeting, commencing 1783, 63, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].